Today’s Highlights:
The Collaboration, by Anthony McCarten, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah, featuring Paul Bettany (Andy Warhol) and Jeremy Pope (Jean-Michel Basquiat), with Sofia Barclay, and Alex Newman, opens at London’s Young Vic.
Caissie Levy in concert opens at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center.
Ocean Filibuster world premiere, by Lisa D’Amour & Sxip Shirey, directed by Katie Pearl, featuring Jennifer Kidwell (Mr. Majority/The Ocean), Marshall Hughes, Rachel Share-Sapolsky, Emerson Sieverts, Evan Spigelman, Dawn L. Troupe, and Nia Weeks, begins previews at Cambridge’s A.R.T.
The Einstein Letter reading, written & directed by Nicky Silver, featuring Sam Hoare, Luke Baker, Victoria Yeates, Sophia Capasso, and Lee Knight, at 8 PM GMT at 8 PM GMT at London’s The Other Palace.
Rob McClure & Seth Rudetsky in concert, livestreams at 8 PM ET here.
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Click here for Broadway Grosses for the week ending Feb. 20.
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London’s National Theatre has announced its Summer 2022 season:
Jack Absolute Flies Again (begins July 2), adapted from Sheridan’s The Rivals by Richard Bean & Oliver Chris, featuring Laurie Davidson, Caroline Quentin, Natalie Simpson, Kelvin Fletcher, Kerry Howard, James Corrigan, Theo Cowan, Jordan Metcalfe, George Kemp, Akshay Sharan, Tim Steed, Geoffrey Towers, Shona White, and Helena Wilson.
Much Ado About Nothing (begins July 7), directed by Simon Godwin, featuring Katherine Parkinson (Beatrice), John Heffernan (Benedick), and more TBA.
All of Us (begins July 27), by Francesca Martinez, directed by Ian Rickson, featuring Martinez, Chris Anderson, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Bryan Dick, Kevin Hey, Christopher-John Slater, Francesca Mills, and Wanda Opalinska.
Blues for an Alabama Sky (opens in Sept. – dates TBA), by pearl Cleage, directed by Lynette Linton, featuring Samira Wiley, Ronke Adékoluejo, Osy Ikhile, Sule Rimi, and Giles Terera.
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. The American Songbook Association will present its 2022 Annual Gala on May 9 at 7:30 PM ET at NYC’s Merkin Hall, directed by Scott Coulter, with music direction by Michael Roberts. Tickets on sale Mar. 1.
Stephen Schwartz
Ben Vereen, Jason Graae, Ann Harada, Paul Shaffer, Debbie Gravitte, Rupert Holmes, Judy Kuhn, Sally Mayes, Kurt Peterson, John Bucchino, Tery Ralston, Jessica Hendy, Kelli Rabke, and more TBA.
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The Episcopal Actors’ Guild presents Mervyn Rothstein’s America Lives: Two One-Act Plays on Thurs. Mar. 3 at 7 PM ET at NYC’s Guild Hall, directed by Tyrone Henderson.
Jason Babinsky, Ian Hersey, Jasmine Rush, and Yvette Ganier.
Play #1: A Mysterious Man follows a doctor faced with a pressing decision during a jog in the woods. Play #2: In 1950s Brooklyn, a teenage boy encounters a racist action.
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Video: Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale record “One Second and a Million Miles” from The Bridges of Madison County.
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Pan Asian Rep will present the world premiere of Richard Chang’s Citizen Wong will run Apr. 12 – May 1 (opening Apr. 17) at A.R.T./New York Theatres, directed by Ernest Abuba & Chongren Fan.
Bonnie Black, Shing Chung, Scott Klavan, Nick Jordan, Malka Wallick, and Tobias Wong.
Set in the 1870s-90s, we meet Wong Chin Foo, the pioneering 19th century activist and journalist known as “the first Chinese American,” who championed the rights of Chinese in America in a time of deep racial animus relevant to the current situation of renewed animosity. Epic themes from the Gilded Age are reflected in Wong’s fictional romance with the liberal-minded daughter of a railroad tycoon-politician inspired by the real life Leland Stanford.
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A Little New Music will return Tues. Mar. 15 at 8:30 PM PT at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club, hosted by Michael-Leon Wooley, with music direction by Gregory Nabours.
Bret Rybak & Jeff Luppino-Esposito, Justin Anthony Long, and Amanda Yesnowitz & Doug Katsaros, and more TBA.
. Michael Thomas Grant, tony Abatemarco, Iara Nemirovsky, Donell James Foreman, Kyra Sleman, Miatta Lebile, Sarah Wolter, and more TBA.
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Sheldon Epps’ Blues in the Night has been extended through Mar. 20 at Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre, directed by David Fiorello.
Felicia P. Fields (The Lady from the Road), Donica Lynn (The Woman of the World), Clare Kennedy (The Girl with a Date), Evan Tyrone Martin (The Man in the Saloon), and Terrell Armstrong (The Dancing Man)
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Frank Ferrante’s Groucho will take place Sat. Mar. 12 at 2 PM ET at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, directed by Dreya Weber, with music direction by Gerald Sternbach.
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Highlights of the Metropolitan Opera‘s 2022-23 season:
Medea (Sept. 27 – Oct. 28), by Vincenzo Bellini, directed by David McVicar, featuring Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, Janai Brugger, Michele Pertusi, and Ekaterina Gubanova.
The Hours (Nov. 22 – Dec. 15), world premiere by Kevin Puts, with music direction by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, featuring Renee Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, and Joyce DiDonato.
Fedora (Dec. 31 – Jan. 8, 2023), by Wagner, conducted by Marco Armiliato, featuring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala, and Rosa Feola.
Lohengrin (Feb. 26 – Apr. 1), by Wagner, conducted by Nézet-Séguin, featuring Beczala, Tamara Wilson, Elena Stikhina, and Christine Goerke.
Medea (Feb. 28 – Mar. 25), directed by David McVicar, conducted by Carlo Rizzi, featuring Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, and more TBA.
Champion (Apr. 10 – May 13), by Terence Blanchard, conducted by Nézet-Séguin, with choreography by Camille A. Brown, featuring Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Latonia Moore, and Stephanie Blythe.
Don Giovanni (May 5 – June 2), by Mozart, directed by Ivo von Hove, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, featuring Peter Mattei, Federica Lombardi, Ana María Martinez, Ying Fang, Ben Bliss and Adam Plachetka.
Due Zauberflöte (May 19 – June 10), by Mozart, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, featuring Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee.
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The Shubert Organization will celebrate the life of former Chairman Philip J. Smith, who passed away Jan. 15, 2021, at the age of 89, on Tues. Mar. 22 at 1 PM ET at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre.
All are welcome.
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A UK tour of Carrie Hope Fletcher : An Open Book will launch May 18, 2023. 
Click here for the tour schedule.
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(Listen): Spencer Day performs “I’d Be Surprisingly Good for You”from Evita.
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Ann, written by and starring Holland Taylor, will run Mar. 22 – Apr. 24 at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein.
Tough as nails. Funny as hell. Ann Richards down home charm and passion for fair play fuel her uncanny leadership and capacity for caring. Always ready with a laugh-out-loud zinger or telling observation, this superstar in Texas politics ultimately became a national figure.
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English has been extended for one week, now closing on Mar. 20 at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre Company.
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Bonnie and Clyde The Musical will open Apr. 9 at the Arts Theatre, directed by Nick Winston, with music direction by Nick Barstow, and choreography by Megan Louch.
Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie), Jordan Luke Gage (Clyde), George Maguire (Buck Barrow), Natalie McQueen (Blanche Barrow), Cleve September (Ted), Ako Mitchell (Preacher), Pipa Winslow (Cumie Barrow/Governor Miriam Ferguson/Eleanore), Gracie Lai (Emma Parker/Stella), Alistair So (Sheriff Schmid), Alexander Evans (Henry Barrow/Deputy Johnson), Roos Dawes (Captain Frank Hamer), and Barney Wilkinson (Bud/Archie), with Charlie McCullagh and Annie Guy, and more TBA.
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Stephen Spielberg’s “West Side Story” will begin streaming on Mar. 2 on Disney+ and HBO Max.
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Bob Gale, Alan Silvestri & Glen Ballard’s Back to the Future has been extended through Oct. 23 at London’s Adelphi Theatre.
Riber Bart (Dr. Emmett Brown), Olly Dobson (Marty McFly), Hugh Coles (George McFly), Rosanna Hyland (Lorraine Baines), Cedric Neal (Goldie Wilson), Aidan Cutler (Biff Tannen), Courtney-Mae Briggs (Jennifer Parker), Will Haswell (Dave McFly), Emma Lloyd (Linda McFly), and Mark Oxtoby (Strickland), with Rhianne Alleyne, Amy Barker, Matt Barrow, Joshual Clemetson, Jamal Crawford, Bessy Ewa, Morgan Gregory, Ryan Heenan, Cameroon McAllister, Alessia McDermott, Laura Mullowney, Nic Myers, Shane O’Riordan, Katharine Pearson, Justin Thomas, Melissa Rose, and Tavio Wright.
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Video: Watch 28 seconds of Hugh Jackman singing “Ya Got Trouble”
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The Huntington Theatre (link TBA) will present Enda Walsh, John Carney & Gary Clark’s Sing Street Aug. 26 – Oct. 2 at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion, directed by Rebecca Taichman, with choreography by Sonya Tayeh.
Casting TBA.
It’s Dublin, 1982 and everyone is out of work. Thousands are seeking bluer skies across the Irish Sea. Sixteen-year-old Conor and his schoolmates find an escape from their troubles by forming a band to impress a mysterous girl. The musical celebrates the joy of first love and the power of music.